News Round-Up
6 January 2025
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Dr Thomas Crew marks the passing of a giant of the German resistance against Covid tyranny: Gunnar Kaiser, who has died from cancer at the age of 47.
Returning to Hong Kong for the first time since Covid, Dr Roger Watson says that the creeping absorption of the region into China is palpable as Beijing dismantles many of its former freedoms.
The new Energy Bill "gives sweeping executive authority to Government ministers", says Dr David McGrogan. "As law-making, it is a travesty. As policy, it is inexcusable." But by merging law and technology it is the future.
Manipulators draw power from the illusion of power: they can control us paradoxically just because we think they can. Once we realise their power is a deception, it evaporates, write Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan.
The problem with the WHO isn't that North Korea has a seat on its Executive Board. The problem is that democracies have suddenly decided they want it to dictate policy during self-declared emergencies.
Jeffrey Tucker laments the declining role of Britain and America's great families in protecting our liberties against the encroachments of the state. Instead, they have allied themselves with the global technocratic elite.
Parliament is crumbling and in need of major renovation, says Laura Dodsworth. And it's not just the building.
NYC's death toll in the first Covid wave was unusually high. Many blame the ventilator panic. However, new analysis shows that ventilators cannot be held responsible for more than a fifth of the deaths that spring.
The Chief Executive of JP Morgan has suggested that Governments should seize private land to build wind and solar farms in order to meet Net Zero targets.
The British people, along with the populations of many US states, have henceforth to live with the fact that liberties we call ‘inalienable’ can be cancelled at a moment’s notice for years on end, writes Lionel Shriver.
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